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I've just costed my main tractor - 140hp, 13 years old at £38.80 per hour including fuel at 15l / hr.
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Aye and hauling grass will use tyres faster than the likes of raking, but it seems as though lots think carting grass has little costs, and do it for less than nowtTyres must be getting around the cost of £1.50 per hour+ to start with
With fuel you are talking over £50/hr which seems not far away. This has been discussed before but round here contractors use farmers fuel. As long as they trust the supplies then seems fairest. Long haul at high revs costs the farmer more, not the contractor.Someone advertising on Facebook with 150hp tractors, man and tractor out at £38ph + diesel.
Seems awfully cheap.
Tyres must be getting around the cost of £1.50 per hour+ to start with
I agree that hauling is sore on machine and driver. Bumpy tracks, high revs on the road, tyre and brakes wearing moreAye and hauling grass will use tyres faster than the likes of raking, but it seems as though lots think carting grass has little costs, and do it for less than nowt
So £38.80 - £16.50 for fuel at £1.10 / litre = £22.30 for you and your tractorI've just costed my main tractor - 140hp, 13 years old at £38.80 per hour including fuel at 15l / hr.
Could be short hauls with flat tracks and no roads !I agree that hauling is sore on machine and driver. Bumpy tracks, high revs on the road, tyre and brakes wearing more
I charge more than that for a £7k Berlingo van with driver and fuel.£25/hr
So £38.80 - £16.50 for fuel at £1.10 / litre = £22.30 for you and your tractor
I would say that's nothing like enough, how much do you value your own time at?
Minimum wage is £9.50 so even if that is all you think you are worth that is only £12.80 per hour for the tractor.
A 140hp tractor could have been in the region of £60k 13 years ago and will be 90-100k now.
So that's 4687 hours to payback your existing tractor or over 5800 hours to cover the likely price to change yours if yours is worth £25k used
I bought it second-hand for £25,000 and I've allowed £2500 / yr for depreciation. In reality it's worth now at least what I paid for it and if I were to change it it would be second-hand again so I don't see my arbitrary depreciation figure being too far adrift for my circumstance. I've costed myself out at £15 / hr.
Hell is ploughing now £37.50 acre??
But on the fuel, just work out the extra costs of the fuel v last year on for jobs and increase your rate pro rata + other increased costs as well of course.
I was chatting to a chap the other day, his grandson is working for a large veg grower, 6 tractors on bed work etc and burning over 3k of fuel per day between them and they will have 6+ weeks of that fuel rate!
£2/hr for tyresI can’t beleive £2 hour for tyres can be right.i was working on £1.50 a clock hour on my avatar 20 years ago
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To put things in perspective my 16 year old daughter starts her first job on Monday, on the books at £11.63 per hour£11/hr self employed days are over unless your a fool
What will she be doing?To put things in perspective my 16 year old daughter starts her first job on Monday, on the books at £11.63 per hour
Well she won't be driving a tractor, milking cows or looking after sheep on that rate will sheWhat will she be doing?